Improvement



JAMES MAGNEE, OF WEBSTER CITY, IOlVA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTER-WORKERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 162,758, dated May 4,1875; application filed April 1, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES ll/IACNEE, of Webster City, in the county ofHamilton and State of Iowa, have invented a new and valuable Improvementin Butter-Workers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure l of the drawing is a representation of a plan or top view of myinvention. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same.

This invention relates to a means for kneadin g, pressing, or workingthe milk and water from butter, so as to prepare it for shipment;

and my invention consists of a hand lever,

round or oval upon one side, and flat upon the reverse side, andswiveled to a table, in such a mannerthat either side may be used whendesired. My invention also consists in providing such lever, near itsouter end, with projecting pins, which engage with teeth or projectingpins upon the outer periphery of a revolving kneading-board, for thepurpose as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, A is designed to repre sent a table, provided withsuitable legs, a,- the table upon its upper surface being slight- 1yinclined, and having strips b 0, so that the milk and water from thebutter will be prevented from running over the sides, but pass down overthe rear edge of the table into a suitable receptacle placed to receiveit.

Upon the table A is a kneading-board, 13, connected thereto by a centralaxis, 01, so as to be rotated freely to turn the butter as it is beingworked, said board being of a circular form, and having upon its outerperiphery teeth or projecting pins 0. Secured to the rear of the table,and upon its side, is the universal joint, consisting of the plate f, towhich is swiveled the U-shaped bar g, carrying the swiveled ring h, intowhich the end of a hand'lever, O, is inserted, such lever being fiatupon one side and oval or rounded upon the reverse side, and having nearits handle 2', pinsjj, which engage with the projecting pins or teeth 0upon the outer periphery of the board 13, by which means thekneadingboard is made to revolve while the butter is being worked. Itwill be seen that the handlever 0 may be used with either side to thekneading-board, the round or oval part being designed to give moreeffective pressure when such is required, and may be removed whendesired to be cleaned.

I am aware that heretofore a rotating table and a pi oted hand-leverhave been used, and I therefore lay no claim to such invention, broadly;but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a suitable kneading board or table, of theremovable handlever G, of the form shown and described, the same beingconnected to the table in a manner so that either side of such lever maybe used, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with the table A and revolving kneading-board B,provided upon its outer periphery with teeth or projecting pins e, ofthe swiveled hand-lever 0, having near its outer end pins j j,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

J AMES MAONEE.

Witnesses:

G. B. PRAY, J. F. MGOALMONT.

